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lumberjim 10-29-2007 09:56 AM

bigfoot sighting?
 
Link to an aol article

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Rick Jacobs says he got the pictures from a camera with an automatic trigger that he fastened to a tree in the Allegheny National Forest, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, hoping to photograph deer.
http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos...28214509990011

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"It appears to be a primate-like animal. In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch," said Paul Majeta of the bigfoot group.

However, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has a more conventional opinion. Agency spokesman Jerry Feaser said conservation officers routinely trap bears to be tagged and often see animals that look like the photos.

"There is no question it is a bear with a severe case of mange," Feaser told The Bradford Era.
Do YOU believe in bigfoot?

Ibby 10-29-2007 09:58 AM

psh.

glatt 10-29-2007 10:01 AM

I believe in Snuffleupagus

ZenGum 10-29-2007 11:04 AM

If that is bigfoot ... why is it walking on all fours??? Everyone knows bigfoot is bipedal. What, is it doing yoga or something? As far as I know, the only bigfoots that do yoga are in California.

Seriously, if there were bigfoots we'd have found some serious evidence by now - a carcass, some bones, shoot one, something. What I find interesting is the widespread prevalence of this sort of crypto-creature. Big-foot, Yeti, and even Austalia has a Yowie, which is much the same... an elusive, bipedal, very tall, hairy humanoid, only glimpsed at night in remote bushlands... I wonder if there is, in the collective unconscious, some primitive nightmare based on Neanderthals or such, that emerges in the minds of people who fall into a semi-sleep state while out late at night alone in the woods...

EDIT: FTR, I voted: I doubt it, because proving something doesn't exist is very hard. I very strongly doubt it. But it isn't absolutely impossible, some yet to be discovered large mammal species roaming a heavily populated continent...

lumberjim 10-29-2007 11:15 AM

good theory. but weren't neaderthals short? still...it almost makes sense.....Like in the book 'Childhood's End'

ZenGum 10-29-2007 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 401066)
good theory. but weren't neaderthals short? still...it almost makes sense.....Like in the book 'Childhood's End'

neanderthals short? Yes and no. The great font of Wiki teaches:
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On average, Neanderthal males stood about 1.65 m tall (just under 5' 5") and were heavily built with robust bone structure. Females were about 1.53 to 1.57 m tall (about 5'–5'2").
I sit corrected. Although, this is short by modern standards, but our ancestors 100,000 years ago were much shorter than we are now. So maybe Neanderthals were big, by old standards. Or, more likely, the fear of the image has increased it's size, or perhaps it was fearful to children ... or it refers to something other than Neanderthals (maybe merely strangers from a different clan?) ... or ... is it obvious that I am just making this up?

I'll drop the Neanderthals link, but some kind of semi-sleeping nightmare from sleep deprived people wandering about the bush, I find plausible.

Spexxvet 10-29-2007 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 401058)
If that is ...bigfoots ....

Wouldn't that be "bigfeet"?

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 401058)
Seriously, if there were bigfoots we'd have found some serious evidence by now - a carcass, some bones, shoot one, something. ...

Haven't you read that they can anticipate their own deaths? When they are close to death, they jump into the neareast active volcano - even their bones burn to nothing! And they are impervious to all human weapons. ;)

Kitsune 10-29-2007 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 401033)
Do YOU believe in bigfoot?

Bigfoot? No. Florida Skunk Ape? That's another story...

Spexxvet 10-29-2007 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune (Post 401082)
Bigfoot? No. Florida Skunk Ape? That's another story...

Interesting that the eyes don't reflect red or green.

TheMercenary 10-29-2007 12:37 PM

I saw him once when I was a kid. Here is his picture.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/archi.../11/yeti11.jpg

ZenGum 10-29-2007 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 401078)
Wouldn't that be "bigfeet"?



Haven't you read that they can anticipate their own deaths? When they are close to death, they jump into the neareast active volcano - even their bones burn to nothing! And they are impervious to all human weapons. ;)

What, do you have teethbrushes in your bathroom?

Volcanoes ... Giant monkeys ... Impervious to weapons ... Why do I feel this is about to merge into the scientology thread?

Spexxvet 10-29-2007 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 401108)
What, do you have teethbrushes in your bathroom?

That would make it "bigsfoots".;)


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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 401108)
Volcanoes ... Giant monkeys ... Impervious to weapons ... Why do I feel this is about to merge into the scientology thread?

More like Flying Spaghetti Monster. "Bigfoot said 'let there be light'".

lumberjim 10-29-2007 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 401102)
I saw him once when I was a kid. Here is his picture.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/archi.../11/yeti11.jpg

looooove the bumble!

jester 10-29-2007 01:40 PM

yes - i have big feet;)

DucksNuts 10-29-2007 05:14 PM

Yanno what they say about big feet....

ZenGum 10-30-2007 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DucksNuts (Post 401232)
Yanno what they say about big feet....

what? Makes it hard to find shoes?

DucksNuts 10-30-2007 04:15 AM

noooooooo

well, yes, but nooooo

Shawnee123 10-30-2007 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 401102)
I saw him once when I was a kid. Here is his picture.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/archi.../11/yeti11.jpg

The great thing about bumbles is that Bumbles Bounce!

TheMercenary 10-30-2007 09:35 AM

:D I loved Bumbles when I was a kid {I still do}, one of the best Christmas cartoons on at that time of the year. :D

Spexxvet 10-30-2007 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 401494)
:D I loved Bumbles when I was a kid {I still do}, one of the best Christmas cartoons on at that time of the year. :D

But not one of the best Christmas cartoons on at other times of the year? Please explain.

Shawnee123 10-30-2007 02:01 PM

Goofy boy.

Side note: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is on tonight! :) Worth missing even NCIS for!

TheMercenary 10-30-2007 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 401600)
But not one of the best Christmas cartoons on at other times of the year? Please explain.

Because then it would have been redundantly redundant and it would not have been that special time of the year that only came when it was Christmas.

bluecuracao 10-30-2007 05:02 PM

Jeezus, Bumble scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. Isn't he more of a Yeti, instead of a Bigfoot?

TheMercenary 10-30-2007 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by bluecuracao (Post 401684)
Jeezus, Bumble scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. Isn't he more of a Yeti, instead of a Bigfoot?

Yea, but when I was a kid they were all the same to me. Bigfoot was just a low-land Yeti. :D

DucksNuts 10-30-2007 08:23 PM

Seriously Merc, change ya fucking usertitle or I am gonna come bitch slap you :)

TheMercenary 10-30-2007 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DucksNuts (Post 401848)
Seriously Merc, change ya fucking usertitle or I am gonna come bitch slap you :)

I never saw it I swear!

DucksNuts 10-30-2007 08:31 PM

:)

BrianR 10-31-2007 09:14 PM

Little-known fact: Pennsylvania leads the rest of the country in Bigfoot sightings. Yes, it's true. Us Pennsylvanians see Bigfoot more in one year than the rest of the USA combined!

I read that in the book "Weird Pennsylvania". Full of interesting ghost stories and such.

Shawnee123 11-01-2007 09:26 AM

That's cause PA gets the best weed.

I thought the Foot was thought to be in the Pacific Northwest.

edit: did a bit of research, there are multiple versions of the Foot
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such as the Yeti of Tibet and Nepal, the Yeren of mainland China, and the Yowie of Australia.
--source Wikipedia

But I'm still surprised about the PA sightings, further research:

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2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a possible sasquatch using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree. A spokesperson for the Pennsylania Game Commission challenged the Bigfoot explanation, saying that it looked like "a bear with a severe case of mange."[30] The sighting happened near the town of Ridgway, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny National Forest, which is about 115 miles north of Pittsburgh.
So, I learned more about Bigfoot today. Now, how to apply that to my life. Ahhh, here we go:

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Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy bipedal hominoid.
Sounds like some guys I've dated. :eek:

BrianR 11-01-2007 11:03 AM

I thought the Northwesterners called (him?) Sasquatch???

Shawnee123 11-01-2007 11:07 AM

Bigfoot [a.k.a. Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, Mapinguari (the Amazon), Sasquatch, Yowie (Australia) and Yeti (Asia)][/i]

From the skeptic's dictionary

He has many names. One lesser known is "Shawnee's ex-boyfriend."

LJ 11-28-2007 08:28 PM

History Channel tonight at 10 et.

bigfoot special!

classicman 11-28-2007 08:46 PM

Woo Hoo I'm in!


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